Ruth Mottram
Climate scientist and glaciologist @dmidk, working on Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic climate and ice
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here's how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
Cumulonimbus - bymoln
Cumulonimbus (bymoln) är vanligare på sommaren än under andra årstider. Dessa bymoln eller åskmoln kan ge upphov till starka väderfenomen, det kan därför vara bra att hålla koll på dem.
Congo declares new Ebola epidemic, 1,000 km from eastern outbreak
Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away from an ongoing outbreak of the same deadly virus in the east.
Detlev Helmig Was Frugal With Tax Dollars. Then CU Fired Him for Misusing Funds.
Amid Colorado’s long-fought fracking wars, the climate scientist's controversial dismissal inflames the debate at a critical time.
Contrails or condensation trails
Contrails are frequently seen criss-crossing the sky and are created from water vapour coming out of an aircraft's engines.
Scaling mountains and crags, one man’s lifelong quest to track and trace the last of the snow
The last patch of snow in England was no match for the sunniest spring since records began in 1929. On Friday morning, in a remote gully in the Lake District, a lick of gravel-flecked ice melted into
BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.06 Saving 1968
War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. But it ended with Apollo 8
Ruth Mottram
I have been catching up with the truly epic and meticulous #13Minutestothemoon. It's an outstanding production, the kind of thing @bbcworldservice excels at.
Episode 6: saving 1968 was particularly resonant today
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Utopierne vil blomstre, så længe mennesker tør drømme
Det seneste ĂĄrhundredes fejlslagne sociale eksperimenter har givet utopien trange kĂĄr. Men nu spirer den lige sĂĄ stille igen, vurderer sociologen Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
Ruth Mottram
I also learn the word #Retrotopia - As in Make America Great Again, or Take Back Control...
Utopierne vil blomstre, så længe mennesker tør drømme
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Letter from Europe: registration
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I dag begynder næste æra i menneskets rumeventyr. Og det er de private firmaer, der trykker på affyringsknappen
NĂĄr de to NASA-astronauter Bob Behnken og Doug Hurley i aften flyver ud i rummet, sker det med rumfartens svar pĂĄ en udliciteret Arriva-bus.
Ruth Mottram
This on soon-to-be-launched space X mission to International space station is v. interesting.
It also crystallized why I am slightly uneasy: the world is fracturing into blocks, without cooperation in diverse fields, what chance do we have on future?
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Stop oliejagten NU
Klimakrisen skal tages alvorligt. Det blev alle verdens lande enige om, da de indgik Parisaftalen. Aftalen betyder, at vi hurtigst muligt skal stoppe
ClimatHD : le climat passé et futur en France – Une application de Météo-France
ClimatHD, une application de Météo-France sur le changement climatique: températures, vagues de chaleurs, tempêtes … à l’échelle nationale et régionale, depuis 1900 et à l’horizon 2100.
Omvendtland
Virus. Det har reddet tusindvis af liv, at regeringen ikke fulgte sundhedsÂmyndighedernes anbefalinger.
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Evaluation of Arctic sea ice drift and its dependency on near-surface wind and sea ice conditions in the coupled regional climate model HIRHAM–NAOSIM
<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> We examine the simulated Arctic sea ice drift speed for
the period 2003–2014 in the coupled Arctic regional climate model
HIRHAM–NAOSIM 2.0. In particular, we evaluate the dependency of the drift
speed on the...
Learning to Fly Delicate Sound of Thunder
"Learning to Fly" is the second song on Pink Floyd's album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The first single released from the album, it reached #70 on the Billb...
Ruth Mottram
Day 7*: A song to drive.
Tricky as I don't own a car, but the soundtrack to a multi-day roadtrip for fieldwork in #Patagonia was Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder so here is Learning to Fly
youtu.be/N2B6tPDmGRI
*Yes I know I'm late, but I only do these when I #amcoding
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